>Hi Bob,
>
>No, I haven't heard of time-limited OS, especially not Windows.
>
>I wonder if he has any luck with a date set back some. Should be able to do that by removing the clock battery.
>Could be that something coincidently went awry in his system.


I have, most of the beta versions that MS put out were time limited. And as I recall, one of them was supposed to expire sometime around now.